Success story: Breaking New Terroir
Collaborative Viticulture Students Reach Beyond the 45th Parallel May 20, 2015 Kurtis Berry Like a grapevine twining up a trellis, NMC’s collaborative viticulture program is growing tendrils of its own and is poised for a growth spurt this summer. Two students...
Success Story: Alumnus will share native Zimbabwe with Netflix audiences
April 3, 2019 Godwin Jabangwe says life’s put him in the right place at the right time, taking him from his native Zimbabwe to an NMC classroom to another in Grand Rapids to Los Angeles. Now the former visual communications student-turned-screenwriter will bring...
Success Story: Making Uncle Sam proud
November 11, 2015 Lifesaving has been all in a day’s work for Doug Lathrop for more than 25 years. As a helicopter rescue swimmer and advanced helicopter rescue school instructor for the U.S. Coast Guard, Lathrop’s descended to places like...
Success story: Museum expansion, new student housing break ground
August 31, 2016 Students returning to classes this week will find construction projects poised on both ends of main campus, as the facilities of NMC’s future learners move from paper to reality. NMC broke ground on a new student residence hall and fitness center...
Success Story: Two TC students forge forward this fall
December 19, 2018 NMC seeks to help each student achieve their personal definition of success. As the fall 2018 semester concludes, enjoy a tale of two very diverse students, each succeeding in her own way. This semester, on the heels of an internship in Seattle and a...
Success Story: Culinary alumnus carves career path at retail market
February 8, 2017 Consider the ideal working conditions for a chef, and Randy Weed has it all: Recipe development responsibility, gigantic pantry full of top-quality ingredients, and satisfied, often repeat customers. The twist is that Weed wields his talents in the...
Success story: NMC students increasingly tap state scholarships
October 12, 2022 The ranks of adult learners attending NMC on the Michigan Reconnect scholarship more than doubled this fall, as the program that seeks to improve the state’s talent pipeline surpassed the $500,000 mark in funds awarded locally. Meanwhile, a new...
Success story: TC Central student tastes confidence in culinary program
January 6, 2016 When Aiden Voss graduates from Traverse City Central High School in June, she’ll simultaneously be just a few credits shy of an NMC culinary degree, thanks to dual enrollment. The 18-year-old also discovered something even more valuable than the...
Success Stories from NMC
NMC students both past and present, along with faculty, staff and alumni, are achieving success in the classroom and their chosen fields. This section showcases just a few of those successes. Sign up for NMC Now below to get these stories (plus upcoming campus...
Success Story: Experiential learning, live from downtown
February 7, 2018 For NMC Audio Technology students, Picnic at the Opera House is anything but. Under the direction of instructor Jonah Powell (right, foreground), 20-some students are responsible for all set-up and tear-down, changing the stage between each of the...
Success Story: Skilled trades to transfer, grads showcase NMC’s breadth
April 27, 2022 Commencement 2022 means a quadruple celebration for the Myers-Rockwood family, whose four NMC graduates also illustrate the breadth of learning opportunities at the college. Bridget Bernhard, David Myers and Olivia RockwoodOn May 7, the blended Traverse...
Success Story: White Pine Press alumnus is Michigan’s Journalist of the Year
April 25, 2018 Reporter Garret Ellison atop the Mackinac BridgeMLive environmental reporter Garret Ellison, a 2006 NMC graduate, has been named the 2017 Michigan Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Ellison, 35, was cited for his “watchdog...
Success Story: Public phase of $35 million campaign opens
October 9, 2019 NMC today kicked off the public phase of the most ambitious fundraising initiative in its history. Be What’s Possible, the Campaign for NMC, has a goal of raising $35 million in four priority areas. Eighty percent, or $28 million, has already...
Success Story: NMC-Traverse House partnership wins award
February 27, 2019 Brenda Clifton and Scott WilliamsDishwasher is not a job that lands on many top-ten career lists, meaning many hospitality employers, including NMC’s Hagerty Center, struggle to find them. But for someone like Brenda Clifton, it can be...
Success Story: Harbor improvements, fuel funds on deck
April 11, 2018 When your summer trip requires putting 98,000 gallons in the tank, you pay attention to fuel prices. NMC’s Great Lakes Maritime Academy recently learned that it can expect full reimbursement of an estimated $196,000 fuel bill for the T/S State of...